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  • NASA, White House Declare National Planetary Protection Strategy
    A photo taken by Expedition 46 flight engineer Tim Peake of the European Space Agency (ESA)
    Implementing the strategy will fall to the Planetary Protection Interagency Working Group, which brings together nearly 20 federal agencies including NASA.
  • Hayabusa2 Scientists Get More Asteroid Dust Than Expected
    A computer graphic handout image shows Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Hayabusa 2 probe arrives to asteroid Ryugu in outer space.
    Samples of dust collected by a Japanese space probe from an asteroid were better than hoped for.
  • Virgin Galactic Will Go Public On The NYSE Next Week
    Sir Richard Branson of Virgin Galactic
    Virgin Galactic could well be the world’s first publicly traded commercial space tourism company next week.
  • Planet-Killer Asteroid To Zoom Past Earth In 2020 Being Monitored By NASA
    This illustration shows a giant asteroid collision between Mars and Jupiter that occurred 466 million years ago and produced the dust that led to an ice age on Earth.
    Named 1998 OR2, the huge asteroid is currently on a trajectory to just fly past our planet, but its course could be altered.
  • Close Encounters? NASA Astronaut Recalls Seeing Mysterious Objects In Space
    U.S. astronauts Koch and Meir attempt the first all-female spacewalk outside the ISS
    Former NASA astronaut Jerry Linenger recalls there were times that would make them go, "What the heck is that?" after seeing unidentified flying objects in space.
  • Under Armour Showcases Virgin Galactic Space Tourist Suits
    Virgin Galactic spacewear by Under Armour
    Under Armour prepared a collection of suits for space tourists who will fly into outer space under the Virgin Galactic mission.
  • After Historical Moon Probe, China Eyes Mars
    Full moon
    China has just made it clear that it is heading to a bright future in the space exploration sector. The country's space agency announced that after a second moon probe by the end of 2019, it will head towards Mars sometime 2020. Three other space expeditions are reportedly in the works.
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